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[ my public key: https://keybase.io/kyleshockey; my proof: https://keybase.io/kyleshockey/sigs/xgSi1kYb7Fe0y6of8HTNnY9GJ2wbYsc-ZtqT5fVOAZI ]
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k_sh··on Bay Area family’s quest to create a backyard container home
Could you not put the RV in a shipping container, though?
k_sh··on Apple, in Sign of Health Ambitions, Adds Medical Records Feature for iPhone
Citation?
k_sh··on California bullet train cost surges by $2.8B
This is what the folks behind the HSR are banking on, and also why I voted for it
k_sh··on Where Pot Entrepreneurs Go When the Banks Say No
I know of a couple dispensaries/delivery services in LA that use payment apps (Square, PayPal, etc) and leave the line item descriptions blank.

Bold, but it seems to work for them.

k_sh··on New Model Warns About Crispr Gene Drives in the Wild
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
k_sh··on Homebrew 1.4.0
IIRC, it's mentioned when you install brew
k_sh··on Apology after Japanese train departs 20 seconds early
Having disabilities, animals damaging infrastructure, garden-variety traffic accidents, and suicides are all classified as "stupid shit"?
k_sh··on Debian and GNOME announce plans to migrate communities to GitLab
GitHub also lets new contributors edit in upstream repositories - and then coordinates a new fork, branch, and PR for the change when the user clicks "Save".
k_sh··on Senators push to ditch social security numbers in light of Equifax hack
> what's to prevent Joe from GIVING his identifying info to someone and then claiming identity theft? Or just buying stuff and claiming identity theft?

That would be the same crime as someone using Joe's stolen credit card info - fraud.

k_sh··on This Is How Amazon Could Invade the Pharmacy Business
The barrier of entry to pharmaceutical sales is a bit higher than electronics.
k_sh··on Poll Shows People Don't Want Amazon Deliverers to Have Access to Their Homes
> In the city if you don't have a doorman, a package is almost guaranteed to get stolen.

I'm guessing you're in NYC?

Doormen are not common in LA/SF.

k_sh··on Q&A: Douglas Hofstadter on why AI is far from intelligent
It's still more data-hungry, though. AlphaGo can play many millions of rounds against itself in the time it takes a human to play one round.

Humans are many magnitudes more efficient at improving a skill, computers just appear to do it better sometimes because they can move faster.

k_sh··on New Research on How Ride-Hailing Impacts Travel Behavior
I have a friend who has one, she uses it quite heavily - routinely cutting around $250 out of her Uber costs. She gets a new one every week.
k_sh··on US telcos appear to be selling non-anonymized access to consumer telephone data
Yeah, that's what GP is describing, I think - people would visit the evil URL while on a cellular connection in order to, ostensibly, get the password for the secured WiFi connection.
k_sh··on IGN acquires Humble Bundle
Did Humble Bundle let IGN name their own price?
k_sh··on Purism Collaborates with Cryptocurrency Monero to Enable Mobile Payments
I'm a Monero dilettante, but my understanding is that this is not the case - your private key (or some derivative of it) is needed in order to unmask transactions on the blockchain that involve you, so others can't see what you've been up to. See below:

"When you send funds to someone’s public address, what happens is that you actually send the funds to a randomly created brand new one-time destination address. This means that the public record does not contain any mention that funds were received to the recipient’s public address.

For the same reason, the funds that you are sending were not associated with your own public address either in the public record. Therefore, when you send these funds, the public record will not show that the funds originated from your public address and will not show that the funds were sent to the recipient’s public address."

Source: https://www.monero.how/how-does-monero-work-details-in-plain...

k_sh··on Is there an upside to having no social life?
The idea that offspring is the only thing you can give to the world is patently false.
k_sh··on Hyperloop One Becomes ‘Virgin Hyperloop One’
+1. I took it once, and it was a wonderful time. Jump for the business class seats, they aren't much more expensive and are quite nice.

But yes - absolutely terrible from a commuter perspective.

k_sh··on Hyperloop One Becomes ‘Virgin Hyperloop One’
The Coastal Starlight runs from Union Station in DTLA to Jack London Square in Oakland. From there, it's a quick walk to BART to get into San Francisco - no bus required.

That being said, the trip takes 13 hours and some change, depending where in SF you're trying to go - which would be blown out of the water by HSR.

k_sh··on Evidence That Online Dating Is Changing Society
A sizable chunk of that 6B are people that don't live in a society that is structured for online dating (undeveloped region, arranged marriages, etc)
k_sh··on A Closer Look at the $13B Premium Eyewear Market
No, but they do own LensCrafters, Sunglass Hut, Apex by Sunglass Hut, Pearle Vision, Sears Optical, Target Optical, and Glasses.com...
k_sh··on No Bitcoin-based protocol can handle more than 20M users per month
A non-profit is still legally structured as a business entity (be it a corporation, LLC, whatever).

Non-profit status is given by the IRS, allowing the entity to avoid taxes. It doesn't change the underlying entity's structure.

NB: I'm not a lawyer.

k_sh··on Sickness absence associated with shared and open-plan offices (2011)
The CDC says 12.1% of the adult US population has sinusitis[1].

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/sinuses.htm

k_sh··on Amazon's Whole Foods Price Cuts Brought 25% Jump in Shoppers
That's exactly how free markets work - "Your profit margin is my opportunity".
k_sh··on Faviconographer – Favicons for Your Safari Tabs
This goes double for Safari, which filters out any text in tab names that is shared between two or more tabs.
k_sh··on No matter what, Equifax may tell you you’ve been impacted by the hack
> If I ever saw an unusual charge on my credit cards, I’d just get it refunded. How much actual harm is going to come out of this? My suspicion is not that much.

Fraudulent charges on an existing account is not the concern when someone has your SSN and other high-value information - it's the ability for someone else to open an account in your name that you have no knowledge of.

k_sh··on Government launches login.gov to simplify access to public services
Tinder is Facebook-only, last I checked
k_sh··on Equifax Faces Multibillion-Dollar Lawsuit Over Hack
Who said the hypothetical plaintiff was interested in _Equifax's_ credit monitoring services? They've already demonstrated they can't keep data safe.
k_sh··on Ask HN: Tips to beat procrastination and lethargy?
If you're experiencing persistent procrastination, you may be suffering from ADD!
k_sh··on $1,000 per month cash handout would grow US economy by $2.5 trillion, study says
Earth-shattering discovery!
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